Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-14
MONTANA MATTERS.

The Big Hole Herding Association began
it's spring roundup on Monday last.
The Livingston Coke e. Coal Company
has ordered material for fourteen new coke
ovens.
Over $500 has been subscribed in Boze.
man to prospect for natural gas by sinking
well.
Fifty ounces of Bannack dust, recently
sent to the Helena Assay Office, proved to
be $40 fine.
The Fort Benton Gun Club has estab-
lished new grounds back Of the butte, where
they have erected a club house.
A stone house in course OF erection at
Great Falls fell last Sunday with crash,
partly destroying building adjoining.
Billings boasts of over six miles Of side
walk. This speaks we'll of town Of $500
Inhabitants barely five years in existence.
An army OF 5000 graders and track
builders are pushing the Manitoba Mon
tanaward, at the rate OF four miles a day.
The First National Bank building at
Livingston was sold on the I'd instant to
J. C. Villas for 6,OO0-one.fourth it's
cost.
The electric light has proved such sue
cess in Billings that the business men and
others there could not now be induced to
do without it.
Another charge has been preferred against
J. C. Brenner, OF Horse Prairie, for illegal
fencing, and Special Agent HALEY is on the
way to investigate the case.
Billings is we'll filled with freighting teams
from adjacent points, which can be re-
loaded at once. as the freighting outfits are
in request by it's merchants.
1. G. Baker & Co., of Fort Benton. re-
ceived information Monday last that the
mail service from Macleod to Conrad would
be continued until October 1st.
The lot jumping fever is epidemic in
Helena. For $14 a lot parties are obtain
ing probate deeds to property that is worth
five times that much per foot.
1t is reported that the Helena Mining &
REDUCTION Company have leased the Tos-
ton Smelling Works, and will operate them
in connection with their Wickes plant.
The term of the lease is not stated.
A brick press recently received at Billings
to be used at brick yard there was only
patented last December and is so arranged
that a snail boy can produce pressure of
$4,000 pounds by simply using lever.
John NJ. Sweeney, of Helena, one of the
firm of T. C. Power & Co., died on Tuesday
night in his 4eth year. He was at Last
Chance Gulch, in 1868, and leaves an es-
JaJe OF ABOUT $fO,OOO.
The register and the recei.,sr of the Boze-
man land office have received notice from
Washington that hey must wait for their
pay until Congress meets. as no appropria-
ton was made for them.
Benton is to be congratulated that the
work of improving the Missouri is to be be-
gun early this season under the manage
ment of so efficient an engineer as Lieuten-
ant Tower.
The report that H. A. Fry, OF Fort Ben
ton, drew O.OOO in the Louisiana Lot
terry is turning out "fake." The River
Press says he is ''either a knave or a fool,
just as you want to size him up"
On Monday the Official residence OF Sher-
iff Irvine, at Miles City, was burned down.
His furniture was removed in safety, and
the county's loss will be mitigated by
81 900 insurance.
Helena is badly in need of new ceme-
terry. Not lot is to be had in the pres
ent one, and the County Commissioners
have twice called the attention OF the City
Council to that fact.
The farmhouse of w. j. Alexander near
Fort Ellis, Gallatin County, was burned
to the ground with its contents. on the
night of the 4th instant, the inmates barely
escaping alive. The barking OF a dog walked
them in time.
Even the churches are catching onto the
boom in Montana. Rev. Geo. Comfort
writes to the Christian II Advocate: We must
soon build IL church in Benton. which is a
place on the eve of a boom. now appar-
emily setting in upon this Northwest.
]. H. Elder, who was appointed county
attorney for Park County, resigned that
office at the first meeting OF the commits
sioners, being ineligible as receiver Of the
First National Bank OF Livingston, which
is Federal Office. j. A. Savage was ap-
pointed in his stead.
The estate OF the late Alex. H. Beattie,
of Helena, valued at 100000, is in liti-
cation, the widow, Mrs. Margaret Beattie,
wanting her sale to the Beattie Brothers of
her iu terest for $50, 900 set aside, and her.
self reinstated as residuary legatee and
executrix, on the ground Of false repre-
sentations and SO forth.
T. C. Power & Bro. have already or.
dered several carloads OF building ma
terial, to be shipped by river, and will at
once duplicate the order. There is even
now constant demand for material of
this kind, and in month or two it will be
ten times greater.-Benton Press.
The Dillon Examiner is responsible for
the statement that hen 'of the ordinary
scrub variety" residing on a ranch in Cold
Canyon, near the Blacktail, laid an egg "a
trifle over eight inches in circumference one
way by three and one-half the other-in
fact it is larger than an ordinary turkey egg
both a q to aize al nd weipht -